Monday, January 30, 2017

A list of HELP senators’ fax numbers | GFBrandenburg's Blog

This is so you can bug them with faxes, telling them not to vote in favor of Bigoted, Billionaire Betsy.

Al Franken MN (202) 224-0044

Bill Cassidy LA (225) 929-7688

Christopher S. Murphy CT (202) 224-9750

Elizabeth Warren MA no faxes

Johnny Isakson GA 202-228-0724

Lamar Alexander TN (202) 228-3398

Lisa Murkowski AK 202-224-5302

Maggie Hassan NH no faxes

Michael F. Bennet CO 303-455-3358

Pat Roberts KS 202-224-3514

Rand Paul KY (202) 228-6917

Richard Burr NC (202) 228-2981

Robert P. Casey, Jr PA (202) 228-0604

Sheldon Whitehouse RI (401) 453-5085

Susan Collins ME (202) 224-2693

Tim Scott SC (855) 802-9355

Todd Young IN no faxes

Patty Murray WA (202) 224-0238

And here is my letter to them (I’ve visited, or lived in, 46 of the states so far):

Dear Senator:

I have visited your great state in the past, but since I was born and raised in the District of Columbia and still live there, I have no senator. So I’m calling on you.

I would like to put myself on the record as vigorously opposing the nomination of Betsy DeVos for Secretary of Education. Not only does she have ZERO personal experience with public education in any form, she in fact is on record as favoring turning ALL education over to private businessmen and religious groups, including the weird form of messianic Christian fundamentalism her billionaire family favors. Her billions of dollars of personal wealth, mostly gained by a pyramid scheme that should have put her family in jail long ago, have been used to purchase politicians to promote her useless ideas, because she was never able to get voters to approve them.

During her confirmation hearings, she demonstrated that she has NO understanding of ANY of the most important issues concerning students and their parents today.

As a result of her machinations, local control has been removed from Black and Brown communities all over Michigan, and educational funds are flowing to all sorts of unethical, unregulated, for-profit charter school operators and religious fundamentalists running unregulated, storefront voucher schools. As a result, the scores of Michigan students on the National Assessment of Educational Progress have, over the past 20 years, tumbled from being significantly above the national averages to being significantly below the national averages, both in reading and in math. And Detroit now has the very worst scores of any city in the nation. Thanks to Betsy Devos. And let us not forget that her policies also brought us the national shame of polluted water in the entire city of Flint.